'All cost, no benefit': Victoria cancels 2026 Commonwealth Games - eviltoast
  • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Here’s hoping Queensland has the spine to say the same thing about the Olympics.

    They want to bulldoze a 100 year old primary school so they can knock down a stadium we already have - to build a new one worth 2.7 billion in exactly the same place. Meanwhile, our rents are going crazy as locals get forced out of their support networks, there’s rough sleepers being displaced and at times outright attacked by the states support workers, our education system is now decades underfunded and the health system isn’t far behind.

    We didn’t ask for the Olympics. The campaign was a businessmans vanity project. It’s insane to shoulder the burden of that frivolity right now.